Through both formal and informal teaching experiences I try to educate and inspire others to explore science.

Curriculum development

Teaching

Outreach

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I work hard to extend what I develop in the laboratory into classrooms. Here are a few examples:

Classroom version of RoboLobster

Neurobots curriculumIn a collaboration with a middle school teacher, I developed and implemented a freely available biorobotics curriculum called Neurobots. We presented this hands-on inquiry-based approach to interdisciplinary science at the National Science Teacher's Conference in San Francisco in 2011. You can read more about Neurobots in the news here and here.

​Or watch the related video publication that appeared in the Journal of Visualized Experiments in May 2013:

Computational neuroscience teaching toolsI developed software tools that undergraduate students can use to build and simulate their own neural circuits. The graphical interface of the LabVIEW virtual instruments makes even those without programming experience able to participate in these computational neuroscience laboratory activities. This work was developed for the Neuroethology course at Northeastern University in 2014.

I've mentored numerous undergraduate interns, coops, and directed study students as well as high school students working in the lab through the Lynn Vocational Tech Coop Program. I've also served as a Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer in such courses as Neuroethology and Comparative Neurobiology. ​

I've had the pleasure to give talks and demonstrations related to my research to various groups around the world. A few highlights include...​​​...a technology expo in Kanpur, India:

​...underwater robot building with Girls, Inc. in Lynn, Massachusetts:

.​..and various presentations to K-12 groups in Massachusetts, South Dakota, California, New Brunswick, and even Honduras! I'm particularly excited about my current work with Brilliant Labs to move outreach-inclined graduate students and post-docs into New Brunswick classrooms.